AN IVORY NETSUKE

SIGNED HOKUNSAI (OSAKA), MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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AN IVORY NETSUKE
Signed Hokunsai (Osaka), Meiji Period (Late 19th Century)
Of a monkey clutching a branch of biwa [loquat] fruit in its left hand, eating a piece of fruit from its left hand, its feet together forming the himotoshi, katabori, ivory with fine hairwork and pupils inlaid in horn; signed on the back in a rectangular reserve Hokunsai
1.3/8in. (3.5cm.) high

Provenance

Segal Collection

Lot Essay

The unrecorded carver of this very fine netsuke was presumably a pupil of Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (see lot 75). For a similar example signed Kaigyokusai koku [carved by Kaigyokusai], see Arakawa Hirokazu, The Go Collection of Netsuke (Tokyo, 1983), pl. 89.

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